About the author: Dr. med. Andres Bircher is Dr. med. Maximilian Bircher-Benner’s grandson. After medical studies in Zurich and Geneva, ten years as a hospital physician in anesthesiology, intensive medicine, emergency surgery, pediatrics, psychosomatics, hematology, geriatrics. Psychiatry and psychotherapy, as a specialist at Zurich university hospitals at senior level. Training analysis with Brain Kenny, head physician of a hospital for internal medicine in Zurich and later in the western part of Switzerland. Study and specialist training in TCM and acupuncture in Vienna, neural therapy, manual therapy, classical homeopathy, Training as a German specialist in balneotherapy, climatology and physical medicine. Scientific work in food energy, dietetics and the effects of regulative medicine. Medical director of the Bircher-Benner Medical Center